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Throttled A Ghost

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
October
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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THROTTLED BY A GHOST

Scoffer Paralyzed and Stricken Blind In a Hounted House.

For many years the old Beers house, on Eighth street, Bloomsburg, Pa., had had the reputation of being haunted and was unoccupied until Newton Lyons of Central came to Bloomsburg to work and took up hls residence in the Beers house, living alone. Mr. Lyons heard the ghost stories, but laughed at thein and for a month slept in the house and declared there was no such thing as a ghost. He had an experience, however, one night recently which caused him to change his mind, and now he cannot be persuaded to spend another night in the house.

   Mr. Lyons says that shortly after going to bed he heard strange noises about the house which he could not account for, but he did not make an investigation and at last went to sleep. About daylight he was awakened by a cold hand clutching his throat. With full possession of his senses, he grabbed the thing that held his throat with both hands, and instantly his hands became paralyzed, but the clutch on his throat loosened.

   He jumped from the bed to follow what appeared to him to be the dim form of a woman, and when near the door of the room he was suddenly stricken blind and fell to the floor unconscious, remaining in that condition for an hour. His eyes pained him for the entire day and were red and inflamed, but physicians could not account for the trouble.

   Mr. Lyons declares that the apparition made no sound and that upon his recovery he found the doors and windows fastened in the same manner they were when he went to bed.